MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF BACTERIAL CELL-SURFACE PROTEINS

被引:57
作者
GOWARD, CR
SCAWEN, MD
MURPHY, JP
ATKINSON, T
机构
[1] Division of Biotechnology, PHLS Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down Salisbury
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10.1016/0968-0004(93)90021-E
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The cell-surface proteins ot the infective bacteria Streptococcus and Staphylococcus are probably involved in the process of infection. These proteins share many features including secretion signal peptides, cell-wall spanning regions, membrane anchor domains and repeated domains of various functions. These common features may have evolved by gene duplication and swapping of gene fragments.
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